Downstream
asks, ‘Have you got a medal?’ I walk back to the tent to get changed and it’s now I appreciate how well i ...
off the Thames. Then I look at my Just Giving page. Entrants to the Great Swims are encouraged to raise money ...
event could have raised £100,000. In Victorian times people made wagers on swimming races across and along ...
Great Swim operations manager. Thirty per cent of swimmers today were raising money, although it’s no ...
four per cent over 61 and 12 per cent under 25. ‘Initially some people did think, “hmm, a dock: do I ...
on and find a location; we’ve missed the history element a bit. But we’ve come full circle, from leisure use ...
want to know when the results will be up. A few hours later I search for the timings; the category ...
fifty-two seconds. The quickest in my wave did it in twenty minutes thirty-eight seconds, the slowest in one ...
Inside there is a snack bar, shampoo, a small tube of toothpaste, nuts, a t-shirt – and there it is, ri ...
22 Greenwich– Woolwich– ...
Grays– Gravesend ‘How pleasant from that dome- crowned hill To view the varied scene below, Woods, ships, a ...
‘Greenwich Hill’ It’s a muggy summer’s morning when I come out of Woolwich Arsenal station on my way to the ...
down the Thames and today I’m heading for the Greenwich Heritage Centre, on the hunt for swimming stories and in p ...
The Royal Artillery Museum. In the distance, by the Royal Arsenal Pier, there seems to be a group of soldier ...
In Victorian times this was the site, just east from here, of the Princess Alice disaster, then desc ...
Gardens in Gravesend. The Princess Alice was one of the London Steamboat Company’s largest saloon steamers and at ...
were trapped in the wreckage and drowned; others died in the river in which an hour earlier raw sewage had bee ...
Around 700 people died, just 100 were rescued. Newspaper reports painted a horrific scene, with ‘the river ...
their hopes by knocking them off the sides with the oars’. On the evening of 3 September 1878 the paddle ...
steamer Princess Alice sank in less than five minutes after colliding with the coal ship SS Bywell Castle. Around 700 people die ...
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